A stepping-stone can be a stumbling block if we can't see it until after we have tripped over it.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

After our ages-long journey from savagery to civility, let's hope we haven't bought a round-trip ticket.

Strangers are what friends are made of.

We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

Discipline without freedom is tyranny; freedom without discipline is chaos.

The only way some of us exercise our minds is by jumping to conclusions.

The human body was designed to walk, run or stop; it wasn't built for coasting.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.

The prime of life is that fleeting time between green and over-ripe.

How many shots had to be fired to turn this child back to his home and anxious mother?

There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful.

The last time he'd walked through a woman's dreams, she'd almost killed him.

Kindness wields a sword of light against the darkness.

The bottom line is very simple. You negotiate on this, they will up the ante for the debt ceiling.

Trust the man who hesitates in his speech and is quick and steady in action, but beware of long arguments and long beards.

This dress exacerbates the genetic betrayal that is my legacy.

Basically I have, like, five really close friends - girls and guys. I like being friends with both because you can do different things with both.

Sometimes it is possible to live without knowing our neighbours: this is not Christian

I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power.